jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 4, 2016 10:28:58 GMT -5
Come back when the ball and chain is removed.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 4, 2016 10:34:56 GMT -5
Thanks fossilman. When are your rivers going to drop so you can go rock hunting in them ? Hoping by March for the 1st gravel showing-than the snow off the mountains will plunge into the rivers,bringing them up again,so maybe 1st part of May hopefully...
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 4, 2016 10:38:41 GMT -5
That copper,and etc jewelry is some killer stuff......
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 4, 2016 10:42:04 GMT -5
Thanks fossilman. By the time the trees get scrubbed down the bars you ought to have lots of new gravel. Perhaps a hammered finish on the soft steel weld on fire pit labels....
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 4, 2016 12:14:45 GMT -5
I totally LOVE your organic industrial jewelry. I especially like this: Victorian Industrial, like the Wild Wild West.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 4, 2016 17:51:57 GMT -5
I totally LOVE your organic industrial jewelry. I especially like this: Victorian Industrial, like the Wild Wild West. Those are fast and easy Tela. I had cut a bunch of trays up before figuring out the edges can be used. Even avoiding buying salvage silver plate that had the pewter border. The old base metal they used a half a century ago for silver plate is some fine metal. The newer silver plate metal is more brittle. Guessing they cut corners some where.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 4, 2016 18:18:32 GMT -5
James, that storage rack is something special! I admire your thought processes, designing, material scavenging and fabricating skilz. You even did all this while going through the "heirloom dishtowel" adversity. But I think most of all, I am jealous that you actually have somewhere inside to keep it - even if you do call it the dungeon.
jamesp, you invited pictures of other member's rock storage, so here ya go. I am not highjacking your thread, only adding quality content to it.
I picked up a nice metal rack on heavy duty casters at the swap meet a while back. I paid $50 or 60 for it.
As you can see, it is already filled with rock, etc.
And just a couple weeks ago, I got this metal rack for $20.
The guy was asking $28 for it, figured he would take $25. So I offered $20. He sold himself short. We left it with him until we were through and then picked it up with the truck. He said he could have sold it numerous times over, for double the price!
I think I got a deal on it. But now, where to put it? The old "having too much rock, running out of room for it" syndrome. Currently on the patio, will not add rock to it until it has a permanent home. (Maybe some day?)
Seriously, nice job on the cellar dwelling rack!
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Post by herchenx on Jan 4, 2016 19:02:48 GMT -5
This is awesome, I think I have an idea of my own now for a large steel "junk shelf" in the garage that I need to use for rock storage...
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Post by captbob on Jan 5, 2016 0:24:12 GMT -5
The old "having too much rock, running out of room for it" syndrome. I still don't think one can have too much rock. The running out of room for it I completely understand!
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Post by cobbledstones on Jan 5, 2016 0:28:55 GMT -5
you can't have too many rocks, but you can have too few saws to cut it all.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:01:04 GMT -5
OK rockpickerforever, I would have started a bidding war w/you on both of those shelves. I would have capped at $150. So you are lucky I was not around. I would have bid against my wife on either, and we have done it before. I urge people to go to scrap yards to get heavy shelving. It has become very rare and loft dwellers are picking such shelves up for indoor furniture. I welded up a couple of dozen of these curio shelves out of rusty water pipe and angle iron. Sold real well, pain in the butt to weld though. Note the deep pits in the pipes(swamp induced rust, jamesp patented process). One inch steel balls welded as finials and to protect parachuters from getting impaled.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:10:38 GMT -5
Irritated that I did not purchase those shelves Jean.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:11:24 GMT -5
Especially the one on rollers.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:15:52 GMT -5
The shelf on the end of the hallway was welded straight to the steel wall. Found 4 of them. All welded to the wall of that oversea container.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:17:29 GMT -5
Can't believe Jean bought those shelves out from under me.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:27:30 GMT -5
Drummond Island Chuck sent this photo full of heavy puddingstone. No way that shelf will last with that much weight. Add one more rock and....
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 5, 2016 9:33:48 GMT -5
I wish I had a neighbor like you, jamesp . I can think of 100 and one things that I would pay you handsomely for. You have some very marketable skills.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 9:53:45 GMT -5
I wish I had a neighbor like you, jamesp . I can think of 100 and one things that I would pay you handsomely for. You have some very marketable skills. It all started when the company I worked for closed down 25 years ago. They tore out all the equipment and steel Tela. Asked me if I wanted it for 3 cents/pound. Three freight trucks of what must have been 100,000 pounds of steel dumped in the woods here. Been building stuff out of steel ever since. Odd how that raw steel changed my path. About 1/3 of the steel the company gave me, was concerned about not getting a permit This barn all junk steel too, another in Florida for camping in
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 5, 2016 9:58:21 GMT -5
Lordy Be!!! That is a lot of metal! Also seems to have been a great investment on your part.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 5, 2016 11:01:40 GMT -5
Lordy Be!!! That is a lot of metal! Also seems to have been a great investment on your part. Funny Tela, the welding rods cost about as much as the steel.
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